Programme
Planet Under Pressure 2012 – Conference Programme

Sunday 25 March 2012

Day 0: Registration and Reception

16:00 Registration opens
16:30-17:30 Young participants networking event
17:45

Lecture: Environment and development challenges: The imperative to act
Sir Bob Watson
Chief Scientific Advisor Department of Environment and Rural Affairs and Professor, University of East Anglia, UK, on behalf of the Blue Planet Laureates.

18:00 Welcome reception supported by the Asahi Glass Foundation, awarders of the Blue Planet Prize
 
20:00 End of reception – registration closes

Monday 26 March 2012

Day 1: State of the Planet

08:30

Arrival
Opening Ceremony

09:00

Welcome from conference Chief Scientific Advisor

Elinor OstromNobel Laureate 2009 Economic Sciences, Indiana University, USA
 

Welcome from the hosts of the conference

Lord Martin ReesPast President, the Royal Society, UK
 

Co-Chairs’ conference vision and declaraion

Lidia BritoDirector of Science Policy, UNESCO and
Mark Stafford-SmithCSIRO, Australia
 

United Nations Rio+20 Earth Summit

Caroline SpelmanSecretary of State for the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Georgios KostakosActing Deputy Executive Secretary, High-level Panel on Global Sustainability, United Nations

 

The voice of youth

Planet under pressure UK youth voice project with support from the British Science Association, Research Councils UK, Sciencewise-ERC and The Royal Society

Plenary presentations

Planet under pressure
09:50 Drivers of global environmental change
Diana LivermanProfessor of Geography and Development, University of Arizona, USA and co-chair Future Earth Transition Team
10:10 State of the Planet: biogeophysical and climate 
Will SteffenExecutive Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute, Australian National UniversityAustralia
10:30 Refreshment break
11:00 State of the Planet: ecosystems
Sandra DiazProfessor, Córdoba National University, Argentina
11:20 State of humanity: economic and political challenges
Anthony GiddensEmeritus Professor, London School of Economics, UK
11:40

Panel discussion: The planet in 2050

Sir John BeddingtonUK Chief Scientific Advisor
Carlos JolyBiodiversity Senior Adviser, Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation, Brazil
Martin HaighSenior Energy Advisor, Scenarios Team, Shell
Jill JaegerSenior Researcher, Sustainable Europe Research Institute, Austria
Rowan DouglasChief Executive Officer, Global Analytics, Willis Re, UK

Moderator: Nisha Pillai

12:30 
13:00
Lunch and posters
Key event (40 mins): White papers and policy briefs for Rio+20 introduced by ICSU President Yuan-Tseh Lee
14:00

Parallel Sessions

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15:30 Refreshment breaks
16:00

Parallel Sessions

17:30 Poster Session 1
Contributions from submitted abstracts

Poster Session drinks reception sponsored by
The Centre for Carbon Measurement at NPL 
The Centre for Carbon Measurement at NPL
19:30 End of Day One

Tuesday 27 March 2012

Day 2: Options and opportunities

Plenary presentations

Thinking globally: big ideas for a crowded planet
08:30 Green economic development
Yvo de BoerSpecial Global Advisor, Climate Change and Sustainability, KPMG,The Netherlands and former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
08:45 Securing food and water for the world's poorest: time for innovative cooperation
Bina AgarwalDirector and Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University, India
09:00 Planetary stewardship: risks, obstacles and opportunities
Georgina MaceProfessor, Imperial College London, UK
09:15

Panel discussion: Innovative solutions for a planet under pressure

Nigel Cameron, President, Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies, USA
Coleen VogelIndependent scholar, South Africa
Mohammad Shahbaz
Advisor to the National Centre for Research and Development, Higher Council for Science and Technology, Jordan
Keith ClarkeDirector of Sustainability, Atkins, UK
Priya ShyamsundarProgram Director of the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics
Pamela M. CollinsDoctoral student in palaeobiogeography, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Moderator: Richard BlackBBC

10:00 Refreshment breaks
10:30

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12:00 Lunch, key events and posters
14:00

Parallel Sessions

15:30 Refreshment breaks
16:00

Parallel Sessions

17:30 Poster Session 2
Contributions from submitted abstracts
17:30 – 19.30 Unconference
19:30 End of Day Two

Wednesday 28 March 2012

Day 3: Challenges to Progress

Plenary presentations

The role of equality and equity in governance for global sustainability
08:30 Societal equality and global sustainability 
Richard WilkinsonProfessor, University of Nottingham and University College London, UK.
08:45 Equity and development in the 21st century 
Mamphela RampheleExecutive Chair, Circle Capital Ventures, South Africa and former director, World Bank
09:00 Global governance 2.0: planetary stewardship 
Laurence TubianaDirector of the Institute of Sustainable Development and International Relations, France
09:15

Panel discussion: governance 2.0

Oran YoungProfessor, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Gustavo FonsecaHead of Natural Resources, Global Environment Facility, USA
Daniëla MariuzzoHead of Corporate Social Responsibility, Rabobank International, Brazil
Warren EvansSenior Adviser, Sustainable Development, World Bank 
Yannick GlemarecDirector of Environment Finance at UNDP
Angela CropperSpecial Advisor to the Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme
Vasna RamasarResearch Associate, Earth System Governance Project

Moderator: Andrew RevkinNew York Times

10:00 Refreshment breaks
10:30

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12:00 Lunch, key events and posters
12:30-13:30 Young Generations's Vision for the Future
14:00

Parallel Sessions

15:30 Refreshment breaks
16:00

Parallel Sessions

17:30 Poster Session 3
Contributions from submitted abstracts
19:30 Dinner reception

Thursday 29 March 2011

Day 4: Planetary Stewardship
8:30

Arrival

Opening ceremony

9:00 High-level welcome
David Willetts
UK Minister for Universities and Science
Irina BokovaDirector General of UNESCO
  Conference Declaraion
Lidia Brito, Director of Science Policy, UNESCO and
Mark Stafford-SmithCSIRO, Australia
Ban Ki-MoonUnited Nations Secretary General (video address)

Plenary presentations

Welcome to the Anthropocene
09:30 Towards planetary stewardship: the nature of the challenge 
Sybil SeitzingerExecutive Director, International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, Sweden.
09:45 Interconnected risks and solutions: policy recommendations
Lidia BritoDirector of Science Policy, UNESCO and Frank BiermannProfessor, VU University Amsterdam
 

Rio + 20: Navigating the Anthropocene

10:00 Future Earth and a new contract between science and society
Johan RockströmStockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden and co-chair of Future Earth Transition Team
10:15 High-level responses from policy, major groups and society
Elizabeth ThompsonExecutive Coordinator of Rio+20 and former Minister for Energy and Environment of BarbadosAchim SteinerDirector, United Nations Environment ProgrammeFelix DoddsExecutive Director of Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable FutureMargit FischerPresident, Austrian Science Center Network and Colin DrummondChief Executive of Viridor
10:45 Open discussion
We invite your questions. 
Facilitator: Nisha Pillai
11:15 Refreshment Break / Press conference

Igniting the paradigm shift: a shared vision for the future

11:45 Reducing economic disparity
Richard NorgaardProfessor, University of California, Berkeley, USA
12:00 Creating sustainable cities 
Shobhakar DhakalExecutive Director, Global Carbon Project, Japan  
12:15

Panel discussion: delivering governance for global sustainability across scales

Carlos dos SantosAmbassador of Mozambique to UK
Maria IvanovaAssistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston and Co-Director, Center for Governance and Sustainability, USA
Henri DjomboMinister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Forestry, Republic of Congo
Julia Marton-LefèvreDirector General, International Union for Conservation of Nature 
Anne GloverChief Scientific Advisor, European Commission 
Patricia PinhoResearch Scientist, Centre for Earth System Science, National Institute for Space Research, Brazil

Moderator: Oliver MortonThe Economist

13:00 
14:00
Lunch, key events and posters
Afternoon refreshments
15:00

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16:30 End of sessions
 

Plenary closing: Beyond Rio+20

16:45 Bridges to the future
Lidia BritoDirector of Science Policy, UNESCO and Mark Stafford-SmithCSIRO, Australia
16:55 Vision from youth
17:00 Awards
Rik LeemansWageningen University, Netherlands
17:05 The way ahead
Wendy Watson-WrightAssistant Director General and Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, on behalf of the UNESCO Director-General
17:15 End of Conference
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